Decisions on the specific use of these funds will be made by the government.

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The funds that will be received by the budget as a result of the planned cancellation of benefits for paying for LTE radio frequencies are proposed to be used in 2024 to provide high-speed Internet in schools, vocational schools and election commissions.

This is stated in the amendments to the draft budget prepared by the government, which Interfax has become familiar with.

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In addition, funds may be used for the construction and design of trunk fiber-optic communication lines to connect remote areas of Yakutia, Tuva, Chukotka, Khabarovsk Krai and other regions to a single telecommunications network.


In early November, the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Maksut Shadayev, said that the ministry was considering canceling the benefit for payment for using LTE frequencies. Since 2011, a reduction factor of 0.1 was introduced for these deductions as an incentive for the development of new technology. The minister explained that LTE is no longer a new technology, which is why it is planned to cancel the discount. Izvestia, citing a source in government agencies, wrote that this measure will attract an additional 20 billion rubles to the budget. These funds are needed to implement social projects in the field of communications, in particular, connecting small settlements to the Internet, the newspaper's interlocutor said.

According to the draft order of the Ministry of Digital Development, published on the portal of draft regulatory acts on November 7, it is planned to suspend the effect of the reduction factor, taking into account the prospects of the technology, for LTE frequencies, as well as when using several cellular radio technologies in one frequency band, for 2024.